Head of Engineering

The role

You will lead the engineering team, own delivery, and set technical direction. You will build and scale the team while staying close to the code and customers.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering team by hiring, coaching, and growing engineers.
• Own delivery by turning product strategy into a roadmap.
• Set technical direction and make architecture decisions.
• Build the team AI-forward by treating AI as a core competency.
• Scale the team through hiring, process, on-call, and org design.
• Stay close to customers via Slack and calls to determine technical priorities.
• Shape the engineering culture, practices, and standards.

Required qualifications

• Led engineering teams and are still hands-on.
• Managed and grown engineers.
• Can design a system and review a hard PR.
• Scaled a team through its fastest growth stage.
• AI-forward with a point of view on how AI helps engineering.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in code quality, architecture, testing, and operational excellence.
• Product-minded with ability to make trade-offs between scope, quality, and speed.
• Ability to hire well and give clear feedback.
• Excellent communication in English.
• Eagerness to work onsite from our Paris office.

Nice to have

• Experience building developer, infrastructure, or security tools
• Exposure to agentic systems
• Been an early engineer or engineering leader at a startup that scaled

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• 30-minute video call with our CEO
• 1-hour technical and leadership deep dive with our CEO
• Working session with the team: architecture and team-scaling scenarios
• Onsite with the founding team
• Reference calls

About the company

Konvu is on a mission to make security invisible by redefining vulnerability management for the agentic world. Founded by early members of Sqreen, the company has raised $5M in Seed funding.